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Spencerian

[spen-seer-ee-uhn]

Spen·ce·ri·an

[spen-seer-ee-uhn]
adjective
1.
of Herbert Spencer or his philosophy.
noun
2.
a follower of Herbert Spencer.

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Spencerian is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1885–90; Spencer + -ian
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Spen·ce·ri·an

[spen-seer-ee-uhn]
adjective
pertaining to or characteristic of a system of penmanship, characterized by clear, rounded letters slanting to the right.

Origin:
1875–80; P. R. Spencer + -ian
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